Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, you can follow the live stream here.

Liturgy sheet will follow.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw. This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

Coffee Morning
Come and enjoy coffee together. If you are interested to come, please contact Sies Plokker.

You can also send a message to info@erc.amsterdam.

Cooking at the Kloof
With a small group of volunteers we will be cooking lunch for 45-80 homeless people in the city centre of Amsterdam.
Would you like to take part in this creative, culinary experience and get to know, or catch up with, other volunteers?
Please send an e-mail to Giles Francis at gilesf@telfort.nl for more information.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Het Purcell Kamerorkest

Mimi Mitchell, conductor

Gerardo Gianolio, trumpet

PROGRAM:
Purcell - Suite from Timon of Athens
Biber - Sonata X
Vejvanovsky - Sonata Venatoria
Heinichen -Pastorale
Torelli - Sinfonia in C - Concerto nr 7 in C groot
Respighi - Aria di Corte from Antiche Danze ed Arie, suite 3
Torelli - Concerto in D for trumpet and orchestra

TICKETS: €15, / €12 with reduction.

At the door or in advance via:
https://purcellkamerorkest.nl/agenda/

Women’s Fellowship
Please join us for our Women’s Fellowship. We have a potluck dinner together, a devotional and a time of sharing and prayer.
For details, contact Peggy Krol:
peggy.krol@erc.amsterdam.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

The Bradley Chorale is known for its vibrant approach to sound, embracing the unique spirit and diverse color palate of each singer. With over 60% of the ensemble consisting of non-majors, the Chorale provides a platform for students to continue pursuing their passion for music alongside their primary fields of study. The group is often described as a place where singers "don’t sing in the choir, they believe it."

The 42-voice auditioned choir is one of the premier choral ensembles at Bradley University, and they have performed both nationally and internationally, including tours of Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Italy, and Wales. Their remarkable dedication has earned them national and international honors, and they have sung at prestigious conventions across the globe.

More information to follow.

Café des Chansons

Mulanje Mission Hospital Benefit Concert

Founded in Amsterdam in 2015,  String Quartet Café des Chansons explores the boundaries of French chanson in a unique guise. The ensemble pairs a professional classical string quartet, featuring violinists Giles Francis and Evelien Jaspers, violist Odile Torenbeek and cellist Sebastiaan van Halsema, with Charlotte Haesen, who trained as a jazz singer.

As is our tradition at the ERC, we arrange one benefit concert each year with all proceeds going to the Mulanje Mission Hospital in Malawi. This marvellous ensemble also performed one of the pre-recorded concerts of the Summer Proms Series which we made during the Covid period in lieu of one live concert. So this is your chance to listen to them live!  This concert will be a premiere of their new programme “La Blancheur des Cygnes”, an intimate and moving selection of French chansons from such legends as Charles Aznavour and Jaques Brel, combined with their own compositions, all specifically arranged for the group.  The central themes of love, resilience and self-discovery are explored throughout the evening with a repertoire which tells its own story.  This is an opportunity not to be missed!  A chance to invite friends for a lovely concert and a visit to our church.  Even better, a chance to make a difference by supporting the Mulanje Mission Hospital with the crucial and life-changing work they do.

TICKETS: €25 at the door or in advance via: Mulanje Concert

All money will go directly to the hospital.  Particular thanks to the artists of Café des Chansons for offering their professional services to this very special cause.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Ich will keine Pferde oder Diamanten! “I want neither horses nor diamonds!”

Frascanti brings a program of a cappella choral music by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel.

TICKETS: €12,50.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Coffee Morning
Come and enjoy coffee together. If you are interested to come, please contact Sies Plokker.

You can also send a message to info@erc.amsterdam.

Ellesmere College Chapel Choir

are delighted to have the opportunity of performing here at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. Based in Shropshire, England, the choir are led by Ellesmere’s Director of Music, Anthony Coupe, who has continued to develop the College’s proud choral tradition. We have performed at St Peter’s Basilica and the Pantheon in Rome, Notre Dame in Paris, La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and St George’s Chapel Windsor in England. Our award-winning choir perform a varied repertoire, both a cappella and accompanied, from sacred cathedral music for traditional services in our Chapel to contemporary music as part of a busy concert schedule.

We will be performing as both a Chapel Choir and as a more intimate Chamber Choir. This concert is for anyone who loves vocal music from sacred classical to pop, and, for those who are unsure, we invite you to spend an hour in our company listening to some amazing sounds and enjoying the true beauty of music by composers including Tallis, Rutter, Coldplay, Quartel, Bach, Stanford, Finzi and many more. We look forward to meeting you at this exclusive free concert on Friday 4th April.

PROGRAM:

• Fix You - Coldplay

• Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring – J.S.Bach

• Help – The Beatles

• My Spirit Sang All Day – G. Finzi

• Poor Wayfaring Stranger – Traditional Spiritual

• On this Silent Night – S. Quartel

• Rhythm of Life – C. Coleman

• Magnificat - Stanford

 FREE entry

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw. This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

The Plantage Chamber Orchestra presents

MUSIC AROUND BEETHOVEN

All pieces of music are based on or inspired by Beethoven's music.

Conductor: Pepijn Streng

Soloist: Gerben Houba (tenor)

PROGRAM:

Somewhere - Leonard Bernstein

Variations on a Thema by Beethoven - Max Reger

Andantino - Ferdinand Ries

Le Prisonnier de guerre - Louise Farrenc with tenor Gerben Houba

La prize de la Bastille (Grave) - Othon-Joseph Vandenbroek

Il barbiere di Siviglia (Overture) - Gioacchino Rossini

Serenade No. 2 (Rondo) - Johannes Brahms

The Plantage Chamber Orchestra

The Plantage Chamber Orchestra (PKO) was founded 12 years ago, with the aim of making exceptional pieces of music playable for an amateur group, with the instruments that were available. The composition of our orchestra is now such that it is also possible to play pieces in the original instrumentation, still with the idea of showing special and often less performed works.

For information and contact: www.plantagekamerorkest.nl or jbranolte@gmail.com

The conductor

Pepijn Streng has been the conductor of the PKO for three years now. In addition to the PKO, Pepijn is also the conductor of the Merlijne orchestra, and he is also a teacher of composition, music theory and the recorder. As a composer and lover of modern music, he feels at home with the orchestra's adventurous attitude to also play lesser-known pieces.

The soloist

Gerben Houba is a sought-after soloist in the field of oratorio, opera and musical theatre, but also an active ensemble singer with various professional companies. Gerben was a permanent member of Capella Amsterdam from 1995 to 2011. He is currently affiliated with the Groot Omroepkoor.

TICKETS: €15 / under 18yrs. Free

The Lexington Christian Academy (LCA) Chamber Choir

hails from the beautiful bluegrass region of Kentucky, famous for its thoroughbred race horses, gently rolling hills, fine bourbon, and vibrant arts culture. Every other year, the auditioned Chamber Choir travels abroad. Performances have included concerts at St. Peter’s Basilica, St. Ignatius Cathedral in Rome, Santo Spirito in Florence, Salzburg Cathedral, the Vienna Minoritenkirche, St. Nicholas Church in Prague, Melk Abbey, St. John's Cathedral in London, and various performances throughout Ireland, Wales, Italy, and Germany. Within the United States, they have mounted concert tours to New York, Philadelphia, Orlando, Nashville, Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Boston. The Chamber Choir has also garnered first place awards at national festivals in Nashville, Boston, Philadelphia, and Orlando.

DANIEL WESLEY is the Director of Choirs at Lexington Christian Academy, where he serves as the Fine Arts Department Chairman, conducts the high school choral ensembles and teaches courses in piano and advanced music theory.

PROGRAM:

• How Can I Keep from Singing? - Robert Lowry

• Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner

• Prayer - Vijay Singh

• Kyrie from Missa Primo - Hans Leo Hassler

• Ndikhokhele Bawo (Lead Me, Father) - South African Hymn

• Lux - Eric Whitacre

• Lamb of God - Twila Paris

• Lamb of God - Melius Christiansen

• Esto Les Digo - Kinley Lange

• Ave Verum Corpus - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Ave Verum Corpus - Camille Saint-Saens

• Veni Creator Spiritus - Denis Rouger

• David’s Lamentation - William Billings

• Cornerstone - Shawn Kirchner

Kentucky Medley - arr. Daniel Wesley

• Down in the River to Pray - Traditional Appalachian

• II. Kentucky Jeremiah Ingalls (1746-1838)

• III. Will the Circle be Unbroken? Ada Habershon (1861-1918)

• IV. Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger Traditional Appalachian

• V. My Old Kentucky Home Stephen Collins Foster

The Lord Bless You and Keep You - Peter Lutkin

FREE entrance; Voluntary collection at the exit

Johannes Passie

Please join us in the church for this Palm Sunday service of worship by our minister Marius Louw. This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s supper.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

International Steinway Artist Teresa Walters

American pianst Teresa Walters performs a concert of sacred music by Franz Liszt

Dr. Walters performs extensively in the world’s finest concert halls and in university, community and church settings to fulfill her vision of great music as art, therapy and ministry. Her Amsterdam program features selections from her 2025 Celebration of Light Tour, honoring the 800th Anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Sun written in 1225.   The Washington Post wrote:  “Teresa Walters is a splendid musician whose marvelous technical prowess and rich expressive resources create music of intimate introspection, orchestral grandeur, and the most minute inflections of color.” 

International tours in recent seasons have included Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Australia, Russia, Japan and Israel.  Other highlights include brilliant debuts in Manila and Hong Kong, performances with the Romanian Brasov Philharmonic, Rachmaninoff performances with orchestras in Russia, a South American debut in Sao Paolo, and the inaugural recital of the International Liszt Cycle for the Liszt-Kodaly Society of Spain. 

Invited by Hungary to perform three prestigious European recitals honoring the Anniversary of Liszt’s birthday, she performed at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Esterhazy Palace and at Liszt’s Birthplace in Raiding where her performance was televised.  In honor of the Liszt Bicentennial, Copenhagen’s Hungarian Embassy presented Dr. Walters in an all-Lizst gala recital as did Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall.  Her Liszt recordings have received nominations for the Grand Prix du Disque and are hailed by FANFARE magazine as “a formidable display of technical dexterity and red-blooded power.” 

Whether performing for European royalty or fundraising for children’s charities in Delhi, Teresa Walters is recognized for her shining worldview.  In 2019-20, she toured internationally with her acclaimed program Celebrating Our World, honoring the world’s shared heritage and common humanity.  During the 2020 global pandemic, she touched the world with her video Music of Hope and Healing.  She also shared her Lakehouse Video Series combining two of her great passions – music and wildlife. 

FREE entrance; Voluntary collection at the exit

https://www.teresawalters.com/

Please join us in the church for the Maundy Thursday Service, led by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

Please join us in the church for the Good Friday service led by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

Liturgy sheet will follow.

Good Friday services are designed to provide the opportunity for reflection on one of the key moments at the heart of the Christian faith, the crucifixion of Jesus. The service will explore the different things Jesus carried to Calvary and will include the much loved hymn, When I survey the wondrous cross. 

A special feature for the Good Friday service will be the 30 minutes of devotional music that will start at 19:30. The Choir will sing during the service. Other than participation in readings and hymns the service is marked by silence and time for reflection. We enter the building in silence and leave in silence. The Good Friday service is both moving and dramatic, feeding both the soul and the senses.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw. This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw. This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

20s & 30s Lunch
Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

Coffee Morning
Come and enjoy coffee together. If you are interested to come, please contact Sies Plokker.

You can also send a message to info@erc.amsterdam.

John Fisher and Domi Oh formed the Amabile Piano Duo in 2021 with the intent of offering four-hand and duo-piano programs which are both rewarding and entertaining. Since then the APD has played dozens of recitals at churches, cathedrals, colleges, universities, conservatories, museums and fine arts centers from Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Fort Worth and Washington, D.C. to London, Dublin, Brussels and Mexico City. Their 2025 European schedule has recitals confirmed in Dublin, Amsterdam and Geneva.

Dr. Fisher was professor of piano and music theory for 51 years, most recently for 34 years at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth where he is now professor emeritus. He held music professorships at St Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana, and at Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota. Retired as of June 2022, he now cultivates national and international appearances by The Amabile Piano Duo.

Dr. Oh is the pianist for the Pasión Trio with Everaldo Martinez, violin, and Natalia Vacarciuc, cello. She is also a piano faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas, and maintains a private piano studio in her home.

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - “Sheep May Safely Graze” from the Hunt Cantata, BWV 208 ,arr. Mary Howe

W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) - Sonata in D Major for Piano Four-Hands, K. 381

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) - The Carnival of the Animals

William Bolcom (b. 1938) - The Serpent’s Kiss from The Garden of Eden

FREE entry. Voluntary collection at the door.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw. This service includes a celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

20s & 30s Lunch
Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

Harp Duo Merel & Mirjam

Together Merel Naomi and Mirjam Rietberg put their harps in the spotlight - because what could be more beautiful than a harp? Exactly: two harps! You’ll discover the versatility of the harp as they share with you the wide variety of soft, powerful, joyful, and raw sounds the harp can produce.

Merel and Mirjam are two creative, classical harpists who love to improvise, challenge each other musically, and use the harp in suprising ways.

Their program includes their own arrangements for two harps of film music and Irish music, as well as the passionate South American music of Piazzolla, and two sonatas by the 17th-century composer Scarlatti. And you’ll be enchanted as they play on two small harps while walking through the audience!

Come on June 4th and delight in these enchanting, mystical, exciting, and captivating sounds!

TICKETS: €15 - pre-sale / €20 - at the door pre-sale: https://www.ticketkantoor.nl/shop/begijnhof

More information: www.merelnaomi.nl or www.mirjamharp.com

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Juliana's Feast – A medieval music festival created by women

Juliana’s Feast tells the story of Juliana de Cornillon (ca. 1192-1258), who invented the Corpus Christi Feast (Corpus Christi Day), a summer feast, one of the largest city festivals with lots of music in the late Middle Ages.

One evening, the young Juliana saw that there was a bite out of the full moon. A vision told her that the incomplete full moon referred to the liturgical year that lacked a feast. Juliana realized that there was no feast to celebrate the holy sacrament together with the people. It became her life’s goal to initiate this sacrament feast. With the help of her friend Eva van Luik (ca.1210- after 1264), the Corpus Christi feast was officially introduced in 1264.

Juliana left behind a complete set of songs for the Office of Corpus Christi Day, but Thomas Aquinas made an Office for this new feast as well, and his Office is used today. However, Juliana's songs have been preserved in a manuscript that is now in the KB, the National Library in The Hague.

Juliana's Feast presents Juliana's monophonic songs from the thirteenth century, surrounded by fifteenth-century Corpus Christi polyphony and instrumental arrangements.

Music: from Juliana's Officie (Manuscript The Hague 70 E 4); polyphony by Johannes Brassart (1400-55), Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), Hermann Edlerawer (active ca. 1439-44) and instrumental arrangements.

AVENTURE: Christopher Kale, Joana Guiné, Irene Sorozábal – voice; Marco Magalhães, Fumitaka Saito, Ita Hijmans – recorders

TICKETS: (including drink & introduction) €27,50 /€ 10 ( <30 / stadspas/ CJP) Reservations and advanced sale: Aventure - Juliana’s Feast

Info: www.aventure-ensemble.nl

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

Please join us in the church for a service of worship by our minister Rev Marius Louw.

For those wishing to join the service online, the link for the live stream will follow later.

Liturgy sheet will follow as well.

20s & 30s Lunch
Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

20s & 30s Lunch
Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

20s & 30s Lunch
Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

20s & 30s Lunch
Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam

20s & 30s Lunch
Every first Sunday of the month the 20s & 30s group from the church meet at Calf & Bloom for lunch and fellowship after the service (around noon).

Anyone is welcome to join! For questions, get in touch with Elisabeth: elisabeth.ijmker@erc.amsterdam